Reforms to speed up adoption, overhaul special educational needs, and family justice are also set out.
The right for nurseries and childminders to request an Ofsted inspection is a victory for early years organisations, who have been lobbying for settings to be able to call Ofsted in and pay for re-inspections, given the Government’s intention to link funding with quality.
Many nurseries have feared that they could be locked out of funding for two-year-olds, which is targeted at good and outstanding providers, if they did not achieve a good or outstanding grade and were forced to wait for their next inspection - which could be a wait of four years or more.
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